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I mostly agree. With my iPhone, I disable wifi and bluetooth when I leave the house (We don't allow cell phone wifi at work, I don't drive very often, and if I'

by __jal 10y ago

I mostly agree. With my iPhone, I disable wifi and bluetooth when I leave the house (We don't allow cell phone wifi at work, I don't drive very often, and if I'm sticking around somewhere with wifi for a while, I may choose to turn it on there). Unless I forget, of course. A phone a while back had a feature I really want - it would do that automatically (I think it was the phone Phil Zimmerman was involved in). Don't see Apple doing that anytime soon, though. My feeling is that the businesses and other nosy APs on my way to work and along other corridors I walk can review/keep automated logs of my comings and goings when they establish an API allowing me access to me theirs. And this is reason #643 for why I've deleted Google Maps, only use Gmail accounts as spam-buckets, use DDG, and generally have mostly cut Google out of my life. I started with an iPhone before Android existed, so I can't say they chased me away, but $%&#, my girlfriend doesn't need to know that much detail about my life; why on earth would I pay good money to send it to Google?

mercer 10y ago
> A phone a while back had a feature I really want - it would do that automatically (I think it was the phone Phil Zimmerman was involved in). Don't see Apple doing that anytime soon, though. I vaguely recall there being an Android mod or app that allows you to automate all sorts of things, with your feature being an example of what was possible. On my mac, I use Hammerspoon to do some of this. For example, whenever I connect to a wifi network that isn't my home network, the volume is automatically muted. No more accidental nature videos playing at full volume in a public place! I do wish I could do something like this with my iPhone. Currently I also turn off wifi manually whenever I leave the house and I feel a bit dirty every time that I travel and I find out that I forgot to do so.

by __jal 10y ago

mercer 10y ago

> A phone a while back had a feature I really want - it would do that automatically (I think it was the phone Phil Zimmerman was involved in). Don't see Apple doing that anytime soon, though. I vaguely recall there being an Android mod or app that allows you to automate all sorts of things, with your feature being an example of what was possible. On my mac, I use Hammerspoon to do some of this. For example, whenever I connect to a wifi network that isn't my home network, the volume is automatically muted. No more accidental nature videos playing at full volume in a public place! I do wish I could do something like this with my iPhone. Currently I also turn off wifi manually whenever I leave the house and I feel a bit dirty every time that I travel and I find out that I forgot to do so.